Obesity: A Public Health Crisis That’s Getting Better? Goldman Weighs In

Rupert Hargreaves

Published onJanuary 23, 2018

Opoids are not the only public health crisis plaguing America (and other countries).

According to a significant study published at the end of last year, the majority of US school kids will be obese by the time they reach 35.

Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studied data from the CDC as well as five longitudinal studies, which in total considered 41,567 children and adults in all, to map out height and weight trajectories for a population of 1 million aging kids.

Kids Obese Children Childhood Obesity — By Dirty29er (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Based on various scenarios, the researchers...

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Rupert Hargreaves

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